While stagnating wages.
Remember kids: the higher the productivity graph climbs, the more proof there is that no one wants to work!
Quadrupled (probably) healthcare costs
To be fair this does hit them first as they age
But also they just strike even by metabolizing their life savings / real estate to pay for this
Leaving us… with no inheritance and holding the bag
Just two years ago I thought they wouldn’t see the effect of global warming and would die comfidently ignorant. I was wrong, but somehow it doesn’t make things better.
And blame us for not having kids.
They need that new generation to exploit.
Mine just accused me of being gay via hearty use of homophobic slurs, because only women and gays cry, and i wasnt no woman.
That’s lame. Real men aren’t afraid to cry, whether straight or otherwise.
Everyone said I was disadvantaged by having a single parent, but I didn’t have to live through any of that shit except for 1 year my mother married (and then left the guy because he was an ass)
One good parents better than 30 shitty ones, mate, and sounds lik you had a good one.
Ehhhhhhhh… I wouldn’t go that far. I had a not-terrible one, who only showed bad sides when I was in my 20s. lol
Yeah I had a similar situation. My dad was a toxic person who thought it was wrong when I cried (which I did a lot; I was a very emotional kiddo) and my mom did everything she could to protect me from that. They eventually separated the year I went into high school, and guess which one I still talk to now in my adult life.
That hurt to read, I’m so sorry
Maybe it’s because i hang around the queer parts of the Internet so much but this story just feels incomplete to me without an “I showed him, I’m a woman now” at the end :)
Sorry to hear about your parents, they suffer from emotional immaturity. Don’t let them hold you back from what makes you happy.
No offense, but fuck 'em, go enjoy your life! 😂
I had subtly internalized that idea from growing up in a small, narrow-minded town. I don’t remember it explicitly being said to me but probably it has. Don’t think it came from my parents though. Definitely not from my mom, maybe from my dad.
My point is that despite the subtlety of it all (as far as I can remember), I had a hard time getting over this internalised toxic masculinity. I can only imagine if it was much more explicit.
But you are you! You define your own masculinity. And as paradoxal as it may seem, being comfortable in your own masculinity, however you define it, is the most manly thing you can do.
Haha ok this meme was good.
I’m one of the parents. Sorry for my generation. :)
We know it’s not all of you. Your generation also fought for civil rights, explored space, invented jogging I think.
We have shitheels in our generation too. And I fear they’ll become more and more prominent as we get older. I hope we’re able to dampen their greed and intolerance.
I’m pretty sure boomers didn’t invent running.
It’s not them. It’s the super rich 0.1% who have screwed this generation.
They didn’t , same class did it same class is doing it. Fuck this stupid fake generation shit
Both are true. Boomers as a bloc have consistently voted for cutting social programs that they benefited from in favor of lower taxes, moreso than preceding and succeeding generations. The wealthy indeed shape the bills and reap the benefits, but it wouldn’t happen without boomer support.
Thank you. Millennials and Gen Z are the same mindless consumers that boomers were, by and large. It wasn’t their generation, it was the bourgeoisie.
Yeah, but if we blame the boomers we never have to take any responsibility and we can just continue mindlessly fucking the world up
And that’s why you always leave a note!
Oh my god, that guy’s arm just came off!
So…they did give us something to cry about.
They played the long game.
It can be four things.
Too real for me irl
That’s a plot twist
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I’ll start crying about reposts if this goes on
I’m chronically online and just saw this, so it’s not worth complaining about yet.
As psychologists always say do not blame you parents, they just did what they could
You clearly have no idea about psychology
What’s the point of blaming anybody? Does it helps you to feel better?
The point of blaming anybody isn’t really about “blaming” them but understanding the cause of your personal trauma and how you reacted to it. You shouldn’t hold on to your trauma by only blaming someone and stopping your personal growth there. You should work to heal it and better yourself. It is hard to start healing if you don’t know the cause. You have to start somewhere.
A small example from me is I wouldn’t buy tissue to blow my nose because “I don’t need it. I can use some hard ass brown paper towels and hurt my nose and irritate my skin.” I don’t mind buying the soft lotion plus tissue for my family and loved ones, but not myself. Why? I couldn’t understand why I felt this way. I just kind of always felt that way. That I’m not good enough and didn’t want to bother with nicer things for myself because “I’ll make do.” Is this from upbringing? Parents? Siblings? Friends? Self imposed rules because I interpreted other people’s actions and thought I wasn’t good enough. Finding the cause does help people feel better because they can have a better understanding of what to focus on.
So yes it does help me feel better. I now have a thing of tissues at work I use when my nose gets runny instead of making do with rough as paper towels. 😁
That is what I think about. I don’t mean they did the best they could. I’m saying that due to their mentality and personal psychology there were no way for them to act another way. If we turn back time they’d do the same thing as it is what they saw from their personal background. I don’t mean we should understand them and forgive, I just think that we could take the responsibility for our life and get over that trauma and frustration to live further without the feeling that our happiness depends on what our parents did to us in the past. You can have another opinion that’s okay, I just express mine.
I think we both are saying to same thing in different ways. I was just saying blaming someone or finding the source helps to start the healing. It is 100% up to the individual to take responsibility on how they treat people. My older brother has “daddy” issues and tends to blame not getting enough approval for being a mess up. I still blame my brother for not bettering himself since then. He’s in his 40s.
Every generation has trauma they pass down in some way, both known and unknown ways. Most parents do their best and we are all human. We’re bound to make mistakes. It is up to the individual to learn from them though.
Absolutely
You need a source for your weird comment, otherwise you don’t sound that smart, Debbie.
Any psychologist that always says “do not blame your parents” is covering up for abusers.
Blaming parents for not doing a global eco-communism
*eco-socialism
Thats fair, a dictatorship of the proletariat ( a democracy where only workers and peasants(including unemployed and disabled folks who arent the bourgeoisie) have political representation) would be needed to address climate change
Dictatorship of the proletariat you described is just one version of socialism. Not the definition of latter.
Yes, and it is the one that has historically worked.
Instead of groiping about problems all the time, we should also be thankful for all the great things they invented, like microchips and food abundance.
Are those things supposed to make up for the mass extinction event they caused?
I think their accomplishments weigh favorably in the balance
I don’t think anything can possibly balance the massive, irreparable destruction that’s been done to this planet, but I guess that’s just me.
These stupid boomers still think they’re going to Mars…
I think deep down they know they’re gonna die. They don’t care about the future either way.
You should get out more. Most of the world is beautiful. Look for the good and you will find it!
We’ll have to reinvent food abundance after climate change, ground water depletion and soil erosion are finishing up with the current one.
A great business opportunity, go for it!
If you are looking at the possibility of global food and water shortages as a business opportunity well then you might be part of the problem…
The problem is also the solution! Many great people will work very hard to solve the problem, you needn’t fret about it. Just keep your door dash app up to date.
That is the opposite of a business opportunity. That is a generation to multi generation project to rebuild and redesign our relationship with food. Some random startup is not fixing that.
Food abundance came as a result of the industrial revolution, which started waaay before our parents were born.
Supermarkets haven’t been around that long. The wide variety we satisfy our picky apppetites with is miraculous!
You think supermarkets were invented by boomers?
Prior to 1960 the concept was uncommon.
Borlaug, Kilby and Noyce were all greatest generation. I don’t think they were parenting lemmy users.
True but employee #849004 at Intel keeps their system producing for us.
Holy shit, the audacity…
I don’t disagree but I’m going to let these people yell at you because they scare me. I can’t take anymore downvotes.
I cry every time…
